1974 – The University of Notre Dame men’s basketball team defeats the University of California, ending UCLA’s 88-game winning streak

1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Tokyo Rose aka Iva Toguri, a Japanese woman who broadcast propaganda over the radio to Allied troops during World War II to bring down their morale

1977 – The world’s largest crowd gathering takes place at the Hindu Kumbh Mela in India-then record of 15 million people

1981 – The US and Iran sign an accord to release 52 American hostages in Algiers

1983 – The New Catholic code expands women’s rights in the Church

1983 – Klaus Barbie, the Nazi Gestapo chief of Lyons, France during the German occupation is arrested in Bolivia for crimes against humanity. Barbie sent thousands of French Jews and French Resistance members to their deaths in concentration camps, as well as torturing and executing many others. He was sentenced to life in prison in 1987

1990 – Indian mystic, guru, and educator, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh dies

1993 – Production begins on Toy Story, the first full-length feature film created by Pixar Animation Studios

1993 – The band Fleetwood Mac reunites to perform at US President Bill Clinton’s first inaugural gala

1997 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron for the first time in 30 years as Israel hands over control of the West Bank region to the Palestinians

1999 – Gary Dellapenta is charged with using the internet to solicit the rape of a woman who had rejected his sexual advances. Dellapenta placed ads in her name claiming she had rape fantasies, leading to a minimum of six men showing up at her home in the middle of the night saying they were there to rape her. Dellapenta was caught when the woman’s father pretended to respond to the ads and was able to trace their origin. Dellapenta received a six-year prison sentence due to California having just passed a law against cyberstalking

2001 – President Clinton admitted he made false statements under oath concerning his sexual involvement with White House intern Monica Lewinsky

2007 – The first McDonald’s drive-through restaurant is opened in Beijing, China

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Written by Crystal McCann

Crystal is the Chief Operating Officer of Lanterns Media Network and the owner of Madisons Media. She lives in Texas with her husband and dogs and is the proud mother of two adult children.